Staff Software Engineer, Athelas
EHR
$180-220k
+ Offers Equity
AI to grow healthcare businesses
Job no longer available
AI to grow healthcare businesses
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$180-220k
+ Offers Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify and improve healthcare delivery through AI and automation.
Role
Who you are
- [Required] Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent extensive experience
- 8+ years of professional software development industry experience
- Proficiency in modern programming languages (e.g., Python, TypeScript, or similar) and frameworks
- Experience with entire modern backend development stack, including but not limited to Git, GCP / AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, relational and non-relational DBs, and monitoring / alerting tools
- Proven track record of designing and implementing end-to-end solutions and making successful architectural decisions
- Experience mentoring others engineers and leveling up an engineering organization
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Openness to occasional travel
What the job involves
- Commure + Athelas is seeking a staff-level engineer to help build our cutting-edge Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform from the ground up. Our EHR Engineering Team owns all EHR features end-to-end, closely integrating with AI and RCM teams to deliver a seamless, data-driven healthcare experience for providers and patients
- Drive Architecture & Design: Make critical decisions about system architecture and design to ensure accuracy, scalability, reliability, and performance
- Drive the technical roadmap for the team, and be a senior voice in the entire Eng organization
- Develop High-Quality Solutions: Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code that brings our EHR vision to life
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with product, design, AI, and RCM teams to refine requirements and deliver robust, user-friendly features
- Champion Engineering Excellence: Ensure coding standards, testing practices, and code reviews are upheld to the highest standards, fostering a culture of operational excellence
- Mentor & Grow Talent: Guide junior and mid-level engineers, advocate for best practices, and champion a culture of continuous improvement
Our take
Today, healthcare providers are tackling the growing challenge of too much paperwork and too little time for patients. Many existing electronic health record (EHR) systems only add to the problem - digital, yes, but often too clunky, time-consuming, and disconnected from the tools doctors actually need. Athelas is tackling this by reimagining how healthcare software works, helping providers spend less time lcicking and more time caring for people.
Athelas offers a full suite of tools that combine AI-powered automation, remote patient monitoring (RPM), and integrated EHR and billing systems. And its newest platform, Athelas AIR, is a next-generation EHR designed to unify clinical and administrative workflows in one intelligent system. By embedding revenue cycle management (RCM) and ambient AI documentation directly into the platform, Athelas AIR streamlines everything from charting to billing. And the goal is simple, to reduce administrative burden, improve margins, and ultimately, give healthcare teams a smoother, smarter way to work.
The company has made significant strides in recent years. After reaching unicorn status in 2022 and merging with Commure in 2023, Athelas is now valued at around $6B and continues to expand its platform. Alongside growing adoption of Athelas AIR, the company has recently secured FDA clearance for its Athelas Home device - an AI-powered diagnostic tool that delivers lab-grade blood test results from a fingerstick in minutes. This allows care teams to test, diagnose, and make decisions in a single visit. With a growing customer base and a broader push into AI-driven diagnostics as well as software, Athelas is ready to be a leader in end-to-end, intelligent healthcare infrastructure.
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Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$60m
SERIES B
Aug 2021
$72m
SERIES B
Total funding: $156.4m
Company HQ
Jackson Park, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Tanay Tandon
(Co-Founder & CEO)Alongside Athelas, they are the CEO of Commure. Previously, they were a Researcher at Stanford University AI Department and MetaMind.
Deepika Bodapati
(Co-Founder & COO)Alongside Athelas, they are the COO of Commure. Prior to founding Athelas in 2016, they were a Researcher at Stanford University, Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab and NASA Ames Research Center.
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